Assessing Accessibility: In-Class Exercise (28 September 2004)
Use Cynthia Says to evaluate at least two of your own web pages (with at least one of those being on your Grace account). If the server is refuses to accept any more URLs from rit.edu, review a page that you visit frequently. Make note of all of the priority 1, 2, and 3 problems identified.
If you reviewed your own web page, fix the Priority 1 problems. Remember that to pass the W3C recommendations, you must not have any Priority 1 problems. (You may find it helpful to use the WCAG checklist.)
After you've fixed your Priority 1 problems, look at the other comments in the report provided. Your efforts should now be directed towards fixing any Priority 2 problems. Finally, Priority 3 problems may also be fixed to provide maximum accommodations.
Post a comment to this entry that describes what problems you found on your site. Which problems were you able to fix? Were there any you couldn't? (If you weren't able to test your site in class, do this before Thursday.)
Excerpt: Here is my in-class exercise for Accessibility:
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I evaluated my basic info page for 409 and my personal weblog. The only problem found was that I had not used the meta lang tag to indicate the language of the page.
Posted by: talikan@mindspring.com on September 28, 2004 03:08 PM | Permalink to CommentI evaluated my 409 page as well and it had issues with missing ALT tags and such. It didnt show any priority ones problems.
ferrari.com "Passed Automated Verification". very impressive.
I tested my 409 page and passed...I can't believe it!!!
Posted by: bjd1309 on September 28, 2004 03:44 PM | Permalink to CommentTested my site finally after being away on vacation. Very cool stuff. I was surprised to see that my site passed. It did give me a warning though on the length of my alt tag for my picture. It is over the character minimum but might be to short. Interesting stuff
Posted by: Robert Henderson on October 5, 2004 07:18 AM | Permalink to CommentI passed everything on my 409 site but the lang requirement, which I believe is only priority 3.
Looks like I practice good coding standards.
Posted by: Gregory Waxman on October 7, 2004 11:56 AM | Permalink to CommentLooks like I passed the test
Posted by: Brandon Lewis on October 7, 2004 02:23 PM | Permalink to Comment